Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

A Fundamental Secret to Happiness? Get Enough Sleep (and exercise in the morning) http://bit.ly/u7LR

How big is a carbon atom compared to a coffee bean? http://bit.ly/2e4mm9 from The University of Utah -- Learn Genetics portal from The University of Utah http://bit.ly/yJL4E

The Beatles' "Hey Jude" Flow Chart http://bit.ly/2Wa8X1

Michael Arrington: Don’t Be A Featured Loser: Facebook "Helps Out" The Unpopular http://bit.ly/xy91p

Who’s Talking About You on the Internet? http://bit.ly/4easza - Tips how to monitor your online reputation.

Write Comments on any Web Page with the Sidewiki Bookmarklet http://bit.ly/yw0yK - How to place your comment at the top if you own a site.

New Transparent Navbar Styles for Blogger-hosted blogs http://bit.ly/rNHvV - The Navbar should be opt-in or opt-out...

RT @Neil_Mehta "Schools need to create guidelines for use of social media to manage risk http://bit.ly/14jLcz"

(You can say I'm wrong but) I just can't think of social media experts as "rock stars"

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Cell: Should scientists be tweeting? http://bit.ly/26r4Vh - Yes, of course they should be.

Graph: the more time people spend eating, the lower the rate of obesity http://bit.ly/aPr4Y

Doctor practices lose financial ground as recession outpaces productivity. Urologist: "We're working 12-13-hour days, and we get told we should work more and see more patients. We cannot". The number of patients seen dropped 11.3% and outpatient procedures dropped 9.9% in 2008. http://bit.ly/1JRZpb

Glatiramer is efficacious in delaying conversion to multiple sclerosis in clinically isolated syndrome/MRI lesions http://bit.ly/3tIhmc

Reliance on self reported smoking status underestimated true smoking by 25% http://bit.ly/4ebAjJ

Over the past 30 years mortality from liver disease has increased 6 times in the UK, rising 8–10% a year http://bit.ly/1SEVm1

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Video: Clinical Pearls in Gastroenterology from Mayo Clinic

The social media department of Mayo Clinic is combining journal articles and videos from the lead authors. This is a useful approach and I suggested it to the NEJM editors during the NEJM Horizons Conference in 2008.



Dr. Amy Oxentenko, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, discusses "Clinical Pearls in Gastroenterology" (http://tinyurl.com/ydwqtk7 for complete article).

References:
Clinical Pearls in Gastroenterology. Amy S. Oxentenko, MD and Scott C. Litin, MD. Mayo Clinic Proceedings October 2009 vol. 84 no. 10 906-911.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Two hours of tai chi per week can improve osteoarthritis symptoms in older patients http://bit.ly/3wcfC9

Children still shedding H1N1 virus 2 weeks after symptoms start, may not be synonymous with virus being infectious http://bit.ly/4plZH1

Millions of Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep - 7 hours of rest a night is important for good health http://bit.ly/4KuTE

A practical guide to interpretation and clinical application of personal genomic screening - BMJ Review http://bit.ly/4rXbiA

Postexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection - NEJM Clinical Practice http://bit.ly/2dnbF5

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Over 400 Hospitals use Social Media - see the list http://bit.ly/3gOTHC

X-rays: Top 10 Foreign Bodies http://bit.ly/qpAHS

RT @JohnSharp Cleveland Clinic now has same day appts in any specialty http://bit.ly/EfjWb

Listorious.com Has A Directory Of The "Best" Twitter Lists http://bit.ly/2WIfU7

Scoble: "Why I don't use Google Reader anymore" http://bit.ly/rw6NY

Check the new Google Music here: http://bit.ly/24DoPb - more info: http://bit.ly/4yRqSm

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

24 risk factors responsible for nearly half of annual deaths, says the WHO. 57% of cardiovascular deaths can be traced back to 3 risk factors—high blood pressure, high BMI, physical inactivity http://bit.ly/7Nujn

Time for a moratorium on vitamin D meta-analyses? http://bit.ly/zWrx4

Warnings about the validity of the oral glucose tolerance test in BMJ http://bit.ly/16IGha

"Doctor who focuses on the disease in the person, rather than the person in the disease" - BMJ http://bit.ly/a2uJJ

On-the-job exercise good for employee and employer: decreases cholesterol and job stress, improves attendance http://bit.ly/2tQaE2

Language of Smiles: When it comes to mood adjustment, is it possible that putting on a happy face might actually work? http://bit.ly/YEjpt

CNN: Bystander or Genovese syndrome http://bit.ly/48vF2A - Terrible.

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CNN Video: Psychostimulants popular on college campuses, easy to get

CNN Video: Psychostimulants popular on college campuses, easy to get.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Fewer than half of patients with fatigue get explanation for their symptoms within a year http://bit.ly/ZrtG1

"Smoking's Damage Swift, Irreversible" - inflicting damage on the arteries with the very first puffs http://bit.ly/7zqXG

Migraine is associated with a twofold increased risk of ischaemic stroke among people who have migraine with aura http://bit.ly/Qltjn

Many Tout Curative Properties of Titanium, Copper, Silver and Gold, but the Science Isn't There http://bit.ly/iapgg

Toxins Make Halloween Face Paints Scary: all products tested contained lead, 60% had nickel, cobalt or chromium http://bit.ly/21tmea

Arzerra (ofatumumab) has been approved by the U.S. FDA to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) http://bit.ly/4wsGsE

ESPN: "Andre Agassi used crystal meth while he was playing professional tennis, according to a new autobiography" http://bit.ly/ZEBe7

Tackling 5 factors could increase global life expectancy by 5 years: nutrition, unsafe sex, alcohol, sanitation, HTN http://bit.ly/1VsRrh

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Hospitals mandating use of smartphones for affiliated doctors

From American Medical News:

63% of physicians already own smartphones and many have discovered that they can be a valuable work tool. Now some hospitals are buying smartphones for affiliated doctors and mandating use.

Henry Ford Medical Group in Detroit purchased BlackBerry phones for all 1,204 of its physicians. The BlackBerry has become a "tremendously popular time-saver, for example, physicians can give patients their direct cell phone numbers rather than the number to an answering service."

While Henry Ford's physicians have the ability to access patient records via their BlackBerry phones, few do because of the limitations of the small screen. Every physician has the drug reference application Epocrates.

References:
Smartphone use pushed by hospitals.American Medical News, 2009.
Image source: BlackBerry 7250. Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Social media is not for everyone http://bit.ly/FSDXF - True. Social media use by physicians should not (and cannot) be an "obligation".

The genius brothers behind Google Wave - CNN http://bit.ly/3KQ7vi

Gmail account security tips http://bit.ly/26iOAR

Gmail address/contact list is showing that it can be a powerful tool for connecting you to your social contacts http://bit.ly/17bYcz -- RT @steverubel The Next Great Social Network? Your Address Book http://ff.im/-aAUq8

Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World, Shown Visually http://bit.ly/2vxHJQ

Review: The Best Smartphones On The Market http://bit.ly/4soD4C

The new Yahoo search includes social networks by default when searching for a name http://bit.ly/13aXBX

2010 Software Security Suites: The Best and Worst - a PC Magazine review http://bit.ly/1HHODx

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Benefit of Perioperative Beta Blockers Confirmed in Large Study - Medscape http://bit.ly/2fHOcI

Cell Phone May Reduce Bone Density in Hips http://bit.ly/4sloSy

Dopamine, as a neurotransmiter, is less about pleasure and reward than about drive and motivation http://bit.ly/3n4d6Y

BBC: Secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter & at least 5 years younger. If the wife was 5 years older than her husband, they were more than 3 times as likely to divorce (comp. to same age) http://bit.ly/1xskH5

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Survey: 79% of American adults use the internet, 85% carry cell phones, 56% have a wireless connection. 48% of African American & Latino adults go online using a mobile device, compared with 28% of white adults. Pew Internet surveys find that 35% of adults use social network sites like MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn http://bit.ly/DF07V

Google Social Search: add a link to your Twitter page & Google will find people you follow & content they produce http://bit.ly/fanmx

Video: 11 Years of Google in 2 Minutes http://bit.ly/3SzP48

Google Social Graph API - Find Your Social Media Connections http://bit.ly/4ihx5c

One of the nice things about Twitter is that it makes people who would not blog tweet.

Google not trapping users’ data: by making it easy to leave Google, people are actually less likely to leave Google http://bit.ly/4fzIpj

Google Social Search shows search results from your "social circle" http://bit.ly/3IgIgD - Try it here: http://bit.ly/nD2aC

10 things Google has taught us - CNN http://bit.ly/1X5m1E - Among them, "Life is long but time is short."

"Day (or night) in the life of a nocturnist" - Musings from a hospitalist http://bit.ly/5ScuJ

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Scope is the official blog of Stanford University School of Medicine

The Scope blog is written by 13 medical school writers at Stanford who recognize that blogging provides a great way to discuss medical, research, and health-policy news. Their goal is to deliver high quality, timely, and compelling coverage of science and medicine around the world.

Scope is published by the Office of Communication and Public Affairs at Stanford University School of Medicine that has more than 150 years experience covering health policy, medicine, and basic science research.

Stanford also publishes Stanford Medicine magazine, Inside Stanford Medicine, a health policy podcast called 1:2:1, a Flickr photo stream, a YouTube channel, and a Facebook fan page.

This is the Atom feed of Scope: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/atom.xml (click to subscribe).

Image source: Scope, "fair use" license.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Is It Safe to Post Children’s Images on Online Photo Sites? - NYT http://bit.ly/1CYhIM

Google Docs Batch Export: Now you can export all your docs, spreadsheets, PPTs nd PDFs in a ZIP archive http://bit.ly/SEjQP

Video: Healthcare and Internet in The Netherlands http://bit.ly/17MHyt

Impressions of Google Wave ~ an Australian Perspective http://bit.ly/1jikP4

The Status of the Medical Blogosphere and BlogWorld Expo 2009: Videos and More http://bit.ly/39bBG1 by @laikas

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State of the Blogosphere 2009 Survey by Technorati

I summarized a few interesting data points from the annual Technorati survey:

Bloggers are a highly educated and affluent group, the majority have a household income of $75,000 per year or higher. The average blogger has three or more blogs and has been blogging for two or more years http://bit.ly/1G9jfG

Two-thirds of the bloggers are male, 60% are 18-44, only 4%“blog full-time for a company or organization http://bit.ly/II4ax

The rise of the professional blogger continues, 70% are better known in their industry because of their blog. Only 12% of professional bloggers report that they blog about their “personal musings” http://bit.ly/3zJxgE

In addition to its positive personal impacts, bloggers have experienced positive career impacts. Just 6% of bloggers say that relationships with friends or family members have suffered as a result of blogging http://bit.ly/1WXLY6

Blogging is on an upward trajectory in many ways - 57% say that their future plans include blogging even more.

One in five bloggers report updating on a daily basis. The most common rate of updating is 2-3 times per week. Higher authority bloggers are much more prolific content creators, posting 300 times more than lower ranked bloggers http://bit.ly/1vTJqp

Bloggers participate in an average of 5 activities to increase traffic to their blogs. 74% of bloggers use a third party service to track site traffic. Google Analytics is by far the most popular tool http://bit.ly/1giB3v

72% of bloggers are classified as Hobbyists, meaning that they report no income related to blogging. Annual revenues from blog advertising: $14,400 for Part-Timers and $122,200 for Self-Employed http://bit.ly/2DG9NH

Bloggers use Twitter much more (73%) than does the general population (14%). Blogs receive only 0.83% of their page views from Twitter referrals. http://bit.ly/19uFeq

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Walt Disney offering refunds for “Baby Einstein” videos purchased since 2004, admitting they did not increase intellect http://bit.ly/4qgBGd

This month's Journal of Hospital Medicine is focused on hospitalists as medical educators http://bit.ly/4u7P43 via @medpedshosp

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center mission statement: to “eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation and the world” http://bit.ly/utzka

"Worst Case: Choosing Who Survives in a Flu Epidemic" - NYTimes http://bit.ly/16tOIn

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Low vitamin D may increase risk of death in older adults

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone and a component of a complex endocrine pathway sometimes called 'vitamin D endocrine system' (Medscape, 2012). 

From Reuters:

Low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of death in older adults, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Optimal vitamin D levels are considered to be between 80 and 120 nmol/L, although there are no set guidelines. On average, people in the current study had vitamin D levels of 66.0 nmol/L.

The risk of death was 47% higher among those with vitamin D levels between 25 and 49.9 nmol/L, relative to those with vitamin D levels of 100 or higher.

The risk of death due to heart disease was more than twofold higher in people with vitamin D levels lower than 25 nmol/L.

References:

Low vitamin D may be deadly for older adults. Reuters, 09/2009.
A vitamin D3 dosage of 800 IU/d increased serum 25-(OH)D levels to greater than 50 nmol/L in 97.5% of women http://bit.ly/GzBCcA
Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.

Video: Nook, Barnes & Noble’s Answer to Kindle

Nook, a new ebook reader by Barnes & Noble.

Nook looks nice but does not have a browser - the Kindle does. See a chart that shows how the Nook stacks up in the e-reader race http://bit.ly/35Qwum


Video: What Can Amazon Kindle 2 Do for You?

References:
Video: What Can Amazon Kindle 2 Do for You?
Link via OpenCulture.com.
Not Yet the Season for the Nook. NYT, 12/2009.

Updated: 12/09/2009

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Meta-analysis finds 6-13% increased risk of diabetes in those who received statin therapy http://bit.ly/3iX7vd -- Although statin therapy greatly lowers vascular risk, relationship of statins to incident diabetes remains uncertain http://bit.ly/3BFQv5 -- "Statin-Induced Diabetes" - the headline of this editorial may be a bit premature considering the available evidence http://bit.ly/15L33K

Diabetes drug liraglutide contains a satiety hormone that helps decrease appetite, it also lowers blood pressure. Liraglutide helps obese adults (without diabetes) lose more weight than the weight-loss drug orlistat (Xenical, Alli) http://bit.ly/14NW0U -- The injectable diabetes drug liraglutide helps obese people who do not have diabetes shed extra pounds http://bit.ly/1MbzKO

Having 5-8 glasses of water in the past 24 hours was associated with a 40% lower risk of having a gout attack. Drinking skim milk led to a 10% drop in uric acid levels (allopurinol results in a 20-30% drop) http://bit.ly/2JCdW8

Darusentan is a new vasodilatory, selective endothelin type A antagonist studied in treatment-resistant hypertension. Darusentan provides additional BP reduction in patients who have not attained treatment goals with 3 or more BP drugs http://bit.ly/1srCs2

Adult survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk for experiencing suicidal thoughts http://bit.ly/2k4573

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NPR Video: How a Flu Virus Invades Your Body

NPR Video: How a Flu Virus Invades Your Body: "It starts very simply. A virus, just one, latches on to one of your cells and fools that cell into making lots more. Lots, lots more, like a million new viruses. This animation shows you how viruses trick healthy cells to join the dark side".

References:
Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body. NPR.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Patients who added a basal or prandial insulin to oral meds had better HA1c than patients who added a biphasic insulin http://bit.ly/3w3wCB

"Worried about flu symptoms but don't want to visit a germ-infested waiting room?" Check AMAfluhelp.org from AMA http://bit.ly/16NMgR

Reducing Improper Internet Use in Your Office: A Quick, Easy and Free Solution - from Medscape. "Average employee wastes 1.7 hours of an 8.5-hour workday, with personal Internet use being the leading time waster" http://bit.ly/4DHseU

Pollution in China in Pictures (Warning: graphic content) http://bit.ly/3J3pww

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Video: A contact lens that displays the Internet

Reuters: A new contact lens is being developed that can monitor your health and even display the internet in front of your eye.

Video: "How to Sneeze" Demonstrated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shows NBC’s Chuck Todd the “Elmo way” to sneeze.

Link via Frank J. Oswald.

American College of Gastroenterology 2008 Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Some highlights from the American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening, 2008:

• Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening: beginning at age 45 years in African Americans.
  
  
• FIT, fecal immunochemical test, replaces older guaiac fecal occult blood test.
  
  
• Individuals with a single 1st-degree relative with CRC or advanced adenomas at age older than 60 should be screened like average-risk persons.
  
  
• Screening in high-risk patients: colonoscopy every 5 years beginning at 40, or 10 years younger at diagnosis of the youngest relative.

Video: See What to Expect During a Colonoscopy.

The CBS news anchor Katie Couric (formerly of the NBC Today show) lost her husband to colon cancer ten years ago. According to the press release, "since then colon cancer awareness and prevention has been a cause near to her heart. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and Katie Couric put together a video for her YouTube channel with recognizable faces who have loaned their talent for Public Service Announcements about the disease."


Colon Cancer Awareness

Related:

Cleveland Clinic Colorectal Cancer Risk Assessment Tool. Get your score in 2 minutes (free).

Fear was the No. 1 reason people gave to explain why they hadn’t gone in for a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. NYTimes.
Image source: Colon (anatomy), Wikipedia, public domain.
10 Questions You Need to Ask About Colonoscopy
Colon cancer and colonoscopy - Cleveland Clinic YouTube playlist

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Google Chrome is available as a Portable download - no install needed, runs from a USB drive http://bit.ly/2i5lET

Presentation: The web as a tool - rather than a threat http://bit.ly/dvCiR

Dr. Berk, CEO of University of Rochester Med Center, discusses his spinal cord injury on YouTube http://ping.fm/x7hp2

The Happiness Project: "Eight Excellent Tips for Living that My Parents Gave Me" http://bit.ly/1ERjyP

Unintended consequences. When a hospitalist's year-end bonus is based on how short the average patient length of stay is: http://bit.ly/3qmTtm

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine: two doses were required for younger subjects (3 to 11 years of age) http://bit.ly/4lbMPq

Strong association between glucocerebrosidase (GBA) mutations and Parkinson’s, GBA deficiency causes Gaucher’s disease http://bit.ly/4zgYHf

Strict Blood-Pressure Control Delays Progression of Renal Failure in Children with CKD http://bit.ly/339hKZ

Why can't you tickle yourself? PubMed abstract http://bit.ly/27GEJT

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Children have chewed gum since the Stone Age

Black lumps of prehistoric tar with human tooth impressions have been found in Northern Europe dating from approximately 7000 BC (Middle Stone Age) to 2000 BC (Bronze Age). The bite impressions suggest that most chewers were between 6 and 15 years of age.

The Greeks chewed resin from the mastic tree (mastic gum) (shown on the right). North American Indians chewed spruce gum.

The first manufacturing patent for chewing gum was issued in 1869 for a natural gum, chicle, derived from the Sopadilla tree, indigenous to Central America.

Chewing gum sold today is a mixture of natural and synthetic gums and resins, with added color and flavor sweetened with corn syrup and sugar.

The medical literature contains very little information about the adverse effects of chewing gum.

A report (see below) describes 3 children who developed intestinal tract and esophageal obstruction as a consequence of swallowing gum.

References:

Chewing gum bezoars of the gastrointestinal tract. Milov DE, Andres JM, Erhart NA, Bailey DJ. Pediatrics. 1998 Aug;102(2):e22.
A moment on your lips, forever in your intestine. NCBI ROFL.
Children chewing xylitol gum were 25% less likely to develop acute ear infections. NYTimes, 2011.
Image source: Mastic resin. Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

U.S. Medical School Applications Flat, at just over two applicants for every spot. 4 new medical schools open doors this year: 2 in Florida, 1 in Texas and 1 in Pennsylvania http://bit.ly/3cvZv5

Belimumab (Benlysta) is a human monoclonal antibody that could become the first new drug for SLE in five decades http://bit.ly/4CSdAq

H1N1 swine flu has turned flu death statistics upside down: 90% of swine flu deaths have been under age 65. http://bit.ly/2SkwWq

Half of hospitalized with the new H1N1 virus are under 25 - the pandemic is affecting the young disproportionately http://bit.ly/GMs6k

Are Physicians Obligated to Participate in Social Media? "The role of the physician in the 21st century will be defined by its role in the social health space" http://bit.ly/2DKMg5

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Presentation: Blogging For The Classroom

Blogging For The Classroom

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The ICE (Illinois Computing Educators) Conference presentation given by Spiro Bolos on 2/26/09. Includes definitions, rationales, examples, tools, and strategies for success in both teacher- and student-authored blogs.

Spiro Bolos is a Google certified teacher and Technology Staff Developer at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL, an affluent village located approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

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Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 report: Bloggers are a highly educated and affluent group, the majority have a household income of $75,000 per year or higher. The average blogger has three or more blogs and has been blogging for two or more years http://bit.ly/1G9jfG

Two-thirds of the bloggers are male, 60% are 18-44, only 4%“blog full-time for a company or organization http://bit.ly/II4ax

How Skype Is Replacing the On-site Job Interview http://bit.ly/Se8PJ

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Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:

A single healthcare provider with "dirty" hands can undo all the good work of an entire hospital to prevent infections http://bit.ly/2WqQ0C

TIME slideshow: Heroin's Global Reach http://bit.ly/2zB1ZO

ICS fluticasone decreases inflammation and FEV1 decline in COPD. Adding LABAs does not enhance these effects. http://bit.ly/1uK7Q4

HPV vaccination for women older than 30 may not be cost-effective http://bit.ly/2QlxiW

MicroRNA called miR-326 may be associated with severity of multiple sclerosis http://bit.ly/3FQPXh

Booster seats reduce the risk of injury in children aged 4 to 8 years old compared to seat belts http://bit.ly/2dmv39

Infection following a tongue-piercing led to fatal brain abscesses in the case of one 22-year-old http://bit.ly/1OnhTD

A decrease in a man’s height to the 25th percentile from the 75th is associated with a dip in earnings of 6-10% - NYT http://bit.ly/94AYr

Is Quercetin Really a Wonder Sports Supplement? http://bit.ly

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Combination of ACE inhibitors and ARBs appeared no better than ACE inhibitor therapy alone and increased harms

From the Annals of Internal Medicine:

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death of both men and women in the U.S.

Angiotension-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) are typically introduced when patients have heart failure or a heart attack with ventricular dysfunction.

Researchers reviewed 41 published studies to compare the benefits and harms of using ACE inhibitors, ARBs, or a combination of these treatments in adults with stable IHD and preserved ventricular function.

The researchers found that adding ACE inhibitors to standard treatment improves clinical outcomes in these types of patients. However, a combination of ACE inhibitors and ARBs appeared no better than ACE inhibitor therapy alone and increased harms.

Image source: Losartan, the first ARB. Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License.

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WHO: New H1N1 flu is "strikingly different" from seasonal flu, killing younger people and often killing them very fast http://bit.ly/1HDTDd

Prophylactic antipyretics at the time of vaccination may reduce antibody responses to several vaccine antigens http://bit.ly/BR3XR

Darker colors in cotton fabric provide better protection against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays than lighter tones http://bit.ly/1fswrs

Doctor says near-death experiences are in the mind - CNN http://bit.ly/6czbp

Drinking a cup of green tea per day was associated with 41% lower of dying from pneumonia among Japanese women http://bit.ly/2k74bM

Does inexperience cost lives? Any evidence behind the “killing season” in the UK and the “July phenomenon” in the U.S.? http://bit.ly/4FNg5K

Modern man a wimp says anthropologist http://bit.ly/Jo8sh

Backpacking appeals to people who are open to experimentation and risk-taking, which may extend to sexual risk-taking http://bit.ly/1RsnCX

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WSJ Video: Fitness Apps for Cellphones.

"Even the most dedicated fitness enthusiasts can get knocked off their daily routine while on a business trip. Now a cellphone or portable media player can help keep your workouts on track." The apps offer ideas that can also be used around the office.

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On the Road. Stay in Shape Out of Town. WSJ.

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Minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) associated with shorter length of stay, fewer surgical complications but MIRP was also associated with more genitourinary complications, incontinence, and erectile dysfunction compared to open surgery http://bit.ly/1Cs0VI

Increased rate of complications among postnighttime surgical procedures if sleep opportunities were less than 6 hours http://bit.ly/2vVZmp

Pneumonia, fever and eating problems are associated with high 6-month mortality rates in advanced dementia http://bit.ly/21h28v

Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, "weakens" infants' immune responses to vaccines http://bit.ly/4CzhTU

The rate of undesirable events was higher at the beginning of the academic year (relative rate reduction 28%) http://bit.ly/2X9r5g

Despite a CD4 increase, interleukin-2 plus antiretroviral therapy yielded no clinical benefit in HIV patients http://bit.ly/f6IVL

Among nursing home residents with ESRD, initiation of dialysis is associated with sustained functional status decline http://bit.ly/1hubBV

Surgical Tourism: Some US Patients Travel Abroad for Less Costly Surgery http://bit.ly/4k4ZEq - Nobody knows how many.

In the U.S., hip fracture rates and subsequent mortality among persons 65 years and older are declining http://bit.ly/18bAO8

Beaumont Hospitals in suburban Detroit will reduce the salaries of some of staff physicians by 5-10% http://bit.ly/2uo6pg

In 1970s, higher-income Americans had higher cholesterol, now poorer Americans have higher levels. Why? Statins. http://bit.ly/200mxk

"Mindfulness meditation and getting “in the zone” can help doctors to avoid burnout" - NYT http://bit.ly/2NAuhy

The 50 most prescribed medicines in the U.S. for 2008 http://bit.ly/HN99d

Cabin air is drawn directly from the aircraft's engines - passenger swab samples contained tricresyl from jet oil http://bit.ly/1x4BYQ

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Kellogg's will use laser to burn logo on to individual corn flakes to "stamp out fakes" http://bit.ly/J0p2S

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